Overview

Facebook posts and comments can be captured and imported
into NVivo. Before you can import Facebook content into NVivo, you first
need to have captured it with NCapture.

Your default view in Facebook is usually the News
Feed which you can capture only as a PDF. If you display wall posts for
a user, page or group, you can capture the content as a dataset. This
becomes a dataset source in NVivo that you can sort, filter or auto code.
Where available, information about the author of the post or comment—for
example, Gender and Location—is also included.

NCapture is a web browser extension that enables you
to gather material from the web to import into NVivo 10 (or later). NCapture
may have been installed together with NVivo on your computer.

For information about capturing content from Facebook,
refer to the NCapture Help.

Import
from Facebook

The steps below describe what happens when you import
Facebook data that you captured as a dataset. If you captured Facebook
posts as a PDF, then refer to Import web
pages.

On the External
Data tab, in the Import group,
click From Other Sources, and then
click From NCapture.

The Import from
NCapture dialog box opens displaying the default folder location
and any NCapture files that are stored at that location. If you want,
you can import NCapture files from a different location—click Browse,
and then change the folder location.

Select one of the following
options:

All
captures not previously imported Selects all NCapture
files in the current location that have not been previously imported
into your project.

All
captures Selects all NCapture files in the current location.

Selected
captures Allows you to choose which NCapture files you
want to import. Select or clear the check boxes as required.

Click Import.
The NCapture files are imported into the current folder location in
your project.

NOTE If the Merge matching social media datasets
(including previously imported) check box is selected, any
matching Facebook datasets are merged together.
Facebook datasets are considered to be
matching if they contain wall posts for the same User, Page, or Group. Matching
datasets do not need to have the same Source
Name. Refer to Approaches
to analyzing Facebook data (Gather Facebook data over time) for more
information.

Understand how posts are imported as datasets

You can import Facebook data as a new dataset or merge
the data into an existing dataset based on the same user, page or group.
If you have not previously imported similar Facebook data, or do not choose
to merge matching social media datasets when you import the data, then
a new dataset is created.

Information you provided at the time of capture is
imported as follows:

Any hyperlinks from the posts are retained in
the source and you can click on a hyperlink to follow it. Some hyperlinks
may not work—for example, if you do not have access to the hyperlink destination.

Photos that have been made public (for example,
on a Page wall) are imported into NVivo as separate picture source files,
and stored in a folder at the same location as the Facebook dataset. The
dataset contains a source shortcut that links to the picture. Refer to
Learn
about datasets that contain source shortcuts for more information.

The dataset is automatically classified with the source
classification 'Reference'. Information (metadata)—for example, URL and
Access Date—is stored as attribute values for the source.